Improvement in corn-flantehs



7), for the furrow.

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Leners Parfuem. 106,202, 1aed August 9,1870. e I l IMPROVEMENT IN come-PLANTm-zs.

The Schedule xefered to in these Letters Patent and making part of the neme 'L GEORGE W.` IITTMAN, of Winona, in the `county of Carroll and State of Mississippi, have invented cer- 'tain Improvements` in Corn-.planting Machine, of which the following is aspecification.

[Natura `and Objects of my I invention.

of which is to make a furrowto deposit the corn in' it, and to cover it up y one and the same act, and at one and the samethne, thus dispensing with all `extra labor and time requiredby the old method.

vA furrow-is opened with n plowfshar'e, attacl-led-in the center of the machine, into` which the corn is dropped regularly, immediately after,--by means of a i feeder and conductor in the center' of the machine,

and `then covered overby means of a barrow or drag` inthe reur. g

A Des cniption of the Accompanying Drawing. .Figure 1 is a planviewofthe machine, embodying in y invention,

i 'ith the corn-feeder and accompanying parts attached-.

Fgure is a side \'iewof thesalne. f

-GeneralDescription. l Myimzention consists of a frame, A, as 'showdin l figs. l and 2, to the hack end of which are attached two uprightposts, B, and ibrward of its centerthe` Back ofits center is attached the plowshare'f/a, which can be raised or lowered, by vmeans of the pin purpose of making either adeep orshallow To thc bottom of thetwo upright posts `B is attached the drag c, .withaeuryed hollow in its center. This drag gathers up-the-earth, which has beenxthrown on `each side of the furrow, and throws it buck over the seed, which drops in betweenA it and t-he and leaves the land smooth.` y

, On each side of theframe two handles, d, are atpurpose of plow-share,

guiding the machine,\as shown in fig. 2. Y t The wheel Cis placed upona shaft, D, which run's in two grooves in thebottcm of the framegend'is held in its place by n'leans of twojournals, e, as shown .in

` iig. 2.

Upon the -iight side of the wheel are two conical pulleys, f and g, upon .which a belt, 7i., runs, connecti ing with'. similar pulleys, 'i andj, in zthe rear, arranged inversely.

Upon top of thefframe, in I its center, isl a Aboit, E,

. Y divided into two sections. I My invention relates to a `corn-planter, the object 'On the top of this box, in4 the center, are three grooves, in which runs a shaft, k, similar .to the one in front. 4 `g In the right section of the box', upon this shaft, are the two conical brward, `by the belt, aast-ated,

In the left section of-*this box, in th'oeenter, upon v the shaft,is a wheeifF, with two buckets, m and n, attached equidistant. 1-

The cornv is placed vin this sectioinand, when the machineis in mot-ion, is carried up and backward vby these buckets, and deposited' inlthe pipe or conductor l, and through it dropped into the furrow below, at

regular intervals.

The box is heldin its place by means of two screws,

o, throughtwo upright posts, p, immediately in front ot the box, acting in connection with the belt upon A,the pulleys, and which also regulate thel tension vof the belt.

The distanceot' planting the corn apart can be re nlated by changing the belt` from onepulley to the other.

n Claim. I clninr as my invention-z-- I 4 v u The frame A, with' the two upright posts B and handles d attached, wit-lithe drag c at the bot-tom, in combination with the wheel'O and conicall pulleys f fandg upon the shaft D,'operating by meansof the belt h upon the inverse conical pulleys@ and j, and.

feed-wheel F, with buckets m and n attached, in con# nectiou with the box E', secured .by the screws. o, and

the conductor land plow-'share a in its front, as and for the purposes hereinbeibre set forth.V Y

' GEORGE W. -PITTMAN.

Witnesses:` R. B. WooLnY, r

SAMUEL BWBANDON.

pulleys z' and j, connected with those 

